Focus.Film.Class

THANKS TO ITS GRIPPING DRAMATURGY AND TENSION-FILLED STAGING, GENRE CINEMA IS GAINING POPULARITY WITH YOUNGER AUDIENCES AGAIN. An 8th-gra­de Hauptschule class from the Gesamtschule am Gluckenstein in Bad Homburg pres­ents the ani­ma­ted film FRANKENWEENIE, a loving homage to ear­ly 1930s hor­ror cinema—somewhere bet­ween mor­bid charm and quir­ky humour. 

Whether film noir, crime thril­ler, or hor­ror: sin­ce the ear­ly days of cine­ma, the dark depths of huma­ni­ty and eerie crea­tures have deli­ver­ed deli­cious chills. What makes the fasci­na­ti­on with dark­ness so com­pel­ling, and what are the defi­ning fea­tures of the shadowy film lan­guage of gen­re cine­ma? Inspired by the upco­ming DFF exhi­bi­ti­on “Shadows” (ope­ning December 9), the »Focus.Film.Class« sheds light on the dark­ness in accom­pany­ing work­shop ses­si­ons, explo­ring land­mark works of film histo­ry. The group will pre­sent their fin­dings in a crea­ti­ve pre­sen­ta­ti­on shared with the audi­ence on stage fol­lo­wing the scree­ning of FRANKENWEENIE. Tim Burton’s homage to James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN (US 1931) revi­ves the clas­sic mons­ter movie for a young audi­ence in sty­lish black and white. With count­less refe­ren­ces and mas­terful craft, FRANKENWEENIE offers an impres­si­ve glim­pse into the world of cine­ma­tic thrills. The scree­ning at the KINOPOLIS Bad Homburg is open to the public and can be booked.

By the way: if you and your class are inte­res­ted in a pro­ject like this in the future, feel free to get in touch with the LUCAS team!